Relativity Quotes

The value of a man resides in what he gives

— Albert Einstein

Time is only linear for engineers and referees.

— Craig Ferguson

Relativity is subjective.

— ADKruk

“To gain height, lose all your tall friends.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.

— Jean Cocteau

Relativity applies to physics, not ethics.

— Albert Einstein

The source of all light is in the eye.

— Anonymous

The word far is too short for me to spell.

— Toba Beta

“To become richer, earn more. To appear richer, move into a poorer neighborhood.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Wealth is relative. Some people aren’t really rich; they just have poor neighbors.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“A mathematician is an individual who proves his beliefs with equations.”

— Bill Gaede

“What to wear: An employee chooses. How to dress: His employer chose.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Never look directly at the sun. Instead, look at the sunflower.

— Vera Nazarian

Relativity is a purely scientific matter and has nothing to do with religion.

— Albert Einstein

I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly.

— Albert Einstein

“It all depends on what sum is sufficient to break a man. A question of relativity, is it not so?”

— Anonymous

I don't believe in bad. I believe in relativity. The only way we can know what we call good is if there's…

— Alanis Morissette

Einstein, in the special theory of relativity, proved that different observers, in different states of motion, see different realities.

— Leonard Susskind

“Since the mathematicians have grabbed hold of the theory of relativity, I myself no longer understand it.”

— Walter Isaacson

Now Einstein was a very clever man, with us all his philosophies he shared, He gave us the theory of relativity, which…

— Richard Digance

Only six men in the world know about relativity. I am not one of them. When I ask them to explain, they…

— Albert Einstein

“Why is it so difficult for us to think in relative terms? Well, for the good reason that human nature loves absoluteness,…

— Felix Alba-Juez

“Toute passe–yesterday’s truth is to-day’s deception, and yesterday’s false inference may be to-morrow’s revelation.”

— C.G. Jung

Now to the term 'relativity theory.' I admit that it is unfortunate, and has given occasion to philosophical misunderstandings.

— Albert Einstein

One of the most exciting things about dark energy is that it seems to live at the very nexus of two of…

— Adam Riess

“That’s impossible [...] You need infinite energy for light travel. Haven’t you heard of the theory of relativity?” She thought she had…

— Shannon Messenger

I sometimes ask myself how it came about that I was the one to develop the theory of relativity. The reason, I…

— Albert Einstein

Thanks to my fortunate idea of introducing the relativity principle into physics, you (and others) now enormously overrate my scientific abilities, to…

— Albert Einstein

String theory?[pause] It closed the conceptual gulp between relativity and quantum mechanics. It postulates that subatomic particles are not points, but strings,…

— Willie Garson

The best everyday example of relativity, the finest symptom of human intelligence, is humor. (...) Design without humor is not human. The…

— Philippe Starck

The difficulty involved in the proper and adequate means of describing changes in continuous deformable bodies is the method of differential equations.…

— Max Born

Let me tell you about Australia. It's really, really, really, far from wherever you live on Earth. You fly and you fly…

— Greg Proops

“Here the attention of the research workers is primarily directed to the problem of reconciling the claims of the special relativity theory…

— Werner Heisenberg

Should a priest reject relativity because it contains no authoritative exposition on the doctrine of the Trinity? Once you realize that the…

— Georges Lemaitre

In the 'in-itself' there is nothing of 'causal connections', of 'necessity', or of 'psychological non-freedom'; there the effect does not follow the…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“The generalized theory of relativity has furnished still more remarkable results. This considers not only uniform but also accelerated motion. In particular,…

— A.A. Michelson

“I had a sneaking suspicion that time was not constant, but I guess I could never prove it. I suppose it didn’t…

— Anonymous

If the 'Principle of Relativity' in an extreme sense establishes itself, it seems as if even Time would become discontinuous and be…

— Oliver Lodge

“One of the brighter humans, a German-born theoretical physicist called Albert Einstein, explained relativity to dimmer members of his species by telling…

— Matt Haig

In quantum mechanics there is A causing B. The equations do not stand outside that usual paradigm of physics. The real issue…

— Brian Greene